Chapter 177 You're Heading for Disaster

"Ah..." Sadie Roth sobbed in utter distress. What to do? Was she going to meet her end here today?

"Mommy, if you jump, I'll jump too!" Coco tried to cheer Sadie on to make the leap.

"Of course you'd say that, you're a bird, but I'm not!"

Sadie was on the verge of tears.

Outside, the man in black continued to batter against the door-it wouldn't be long before he broke through...

But ahead was the thirteen-story fall, sure to result in injury or worse.

Trapped between a ruthless criminal and the high-rise...

It was a dead end either way!

"Jump! Jump! Jump!" Coco flapped her wings, urging Sadie.

"Forget it, if it's my time to die, then so be it!"

Sadie closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and braced herself to jump. But as the whistling cold wind brushed her ear, she pulled back, clinging to the window and wailing, "I don't want to die, oh please, my baby is still so young, and my money, I haven't even spent it all..."

"Boom!" The door burst open.

time's up!" The man brandished his

"Ah-"

hastening to jump, but her clothes snagged on the

Sadie's world crumbled into

launched another attack, pecking at the man's

time, as he stabbed with his knife, the blade sliced through Coco's wing, angling it towards Sadie Roth's

tumbled

closed her eyes in desperation, awaiting the end. But the

ready to face

blade never

figure dressed in black crumpled to the ground before

her eyes

wild beast, an unmistakable tension in his eyes as he scanned the room for her

heart-wrenching.

me '32 Happiness Street.' No building number, floor, or apartment

arms open wide in

catching on the window

eyes widened with terror, the thought

day

swiftness of an arrow, Micah closed the distance and grabbed her

breadth of his chest, finding a haven that overflowed with

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